A proud heart never praises God, for it hoards up praise for itself.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from the sermon “Praise Your God. O Zion” (February 25, 1866)
Humility
Watch the People God Brings – Oswald Chambers
Watch the kind of people that God brings around you, and you will be humiliated to find that this is His way of reviewing to you the kind of person you have been to Him.
– Oswald Chambers –
In The Dark, Listen – Oswald Chambers
When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get in the light. … Now he gives you the gift of humiliation which brings the softness of heart that will always listen to God now.
– Oswald Chambers –
it must become natural – Andrew Murray
As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, [it should be] for us to be humble.
– Andrew Murray –
One of the Greatest Rarities – John Flavel
To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.
– John Flavel –
(1627-1691)
Come In From the Outside – Oswald Chambers
Just as our Lord came into human history from the outside, so He must come into us from the outside. Have we allowed our personal human lives to become a “Bethlehem” for the Son of God?
– Oswald Chambers –
July 30, 2015
May our Lord’s sweet hand square us and hammer us, and strike off all kinds of pride, self-love, world-worship, and infidelity, so that He can make us stones and pillars in His Father’s house.
– Samuel Rutherford –
Lived 1600-1661
June 2, 2015
God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
– Dwight L. Moody –
May 4, 2015
Sinned as we have as a nation, yet to our sin we have added pride in our sinning. The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the church has lost her power to weep over it.
– Leonard Ravenhill –